Ordinary Gweilo
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Category: Life in Hong Kong
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Thunderstorm warnings still annoy me. There’s been one in force all day today, but actually if you look at the Lightning Location Information from the Hong Kong Observatory you will see that there hasn’t been any lightning over Hong Kong for nearly two hours (up to 7pm). So what are we being warned about? I…
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A reader has sent me a photograph (left) of my favourite development. You can see Fo Tan Industrial Estate to the left (sadly obscured by shruberry in the official artist's impression). Then there is KCR House, the black building in the foreground that is dwarfed by The Palazzo, which just disappeared from the artist's impression.…
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In business, timing is everything. So, it is somewhat bizarre that Hong Kong finally has a service similar to Netflix just as it seems clear that DVDs are being replaced by downloads (and streaming). The new service (StarMetro) was mentioned in Sunday Post (now, er, officially my favourite magazine in the whole word) and –…
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Friday's SCMP came with a glossy magazine, and yes there is an advert for The Palazzo (see right). Presumably this is supposed to show the view from what their website describes as 'Piazza Michelangaiolo' (in case you're wondering who he might be, I think he was a renaissance painter during the week and a Formula One…
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Sadly, the weekend's editions of the SCMP contained not a single advert for The Palazzo. What it did contain was a photograph of the equestrian facilities, the racecourse and the site of The Palazzo, courtesy of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. This shows quite clearly the position of The Palazzo relative to the racecourse and…
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The artist employed by Sino Land is obviously hard at work trying to come up with new and imaginative ways to depict The Palazzo. Yesterday’s SCMP had this effort (see right), which is actually not too bad. Yes, The Palazzo has grown in size, and yes it has been twisted round by about 90 degrees,…
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The Cable TV news service on KCR MTR trains is all about the earthquake in Sichuan. Would it therefore not be possible (just for a day or two) to drop the idiotic advertising that takes up about 50% of the screen whilst the news is being broadcast? Distressing pictures of earthquake victims do not sit…
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Today’s SCMP comes with a giant poster of The Palazzo, complete with the ridiculous claim that it benefits from the superb facilities of the Olympic Equestrian Arena. That’s the temporary arena that the developers portray as a small rugby league stadium (see right), and which will be demolished before anyone moves into The Palazzo. Meanwhile,…
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Hong Kong property developers don’t just tell little white lies, oh no. The Palazzo is a new development in the New Territories. As is apparently compulsory these days it has a funny foreign name (French and Italian being favourites) and an auspicious Chinese name (御龍山 – which is something to do with an imperial dragon…
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Sometimes you have to admire the ingenuity of Hong Kong companies in overcoming problems – and wonder why the government couldn’t make life simpler. Problem #1. Smartone would like to steal some of PCCW’s fixed-line customers, but they don’t have a fixed line network. Solution – launch a mobile service masquerading as a fixed-line service…
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